Dec

9

Self-Care in the Wake of Intense Media Coverage

December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment

I’m headed to the 216 for some quality family time, to practice a little self-care of my own in the wake of some very trying times. I leave you with this blog post over at Psychology Today by Olga Trujillo: Getting Through Sex Abuse Scandals and Depression.

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Sep

10

Helping Children Remember 9/11

September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

I’m wrapping up some work this weekend, and preparing to travel (naturally) tomorrow to Maxwell AFB, but this table, published here, seemed like a worthy post to commemorate the date. There are multiple resources on how to help children remember 9/11 that may be worth checking out:

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Aug

3

Odds & Ends Wednesday: Medscape and NPR

August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment

There are several things I wanted to bring to your attention this morning: Medscape has some good stuff this week: **An article from the July 2011 Nursing Economics about violence against nurses and its personal and professional toll; **Gail Horner’s article on evaluating child sexual abuse that is cited in this month’s Articles of Note, [...]

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Feb

7

Compassion Fatigue

February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury is hosting a webinar on compassion fatigue February 24th from 1-4pm ET. They have no info up yet on their site about the specifics of the session, but continue to check here for details, including registration. Should be a good one.

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Oct

28

Digital Stories

October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment

First, apologies for the radio silence this week. It turns out when I left DC Sunday night, my laptop didn’t. So we were just reunited late last night (big sigh of relief). We’re all in Pittsburgh this week at the IAFN Annual Scientific Assembly, and last night, the audience was shown a short film on [...]

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Sep

15

Defending Against Workplace Violence

September 15, 2010 | 1 Comment

Over at Medscape Nursing, they have an interesting question posed in their legal column: Can I get fired for defending myself against violence at work? The author who responds to this question makes some nice points, and it’s concise and practical. Particularly for our colleagues in the emergency department, this is a very real issue. [...]

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Jul

14

Vicarious Trauma

July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The National Child Protection Training Center is offering a webinar on vicarious trauma Thursday, August 19th at 3pm CT. Registration is $10. From the site: This workshop will address the effects of working with and responding to children who have witnessed and experienced violence, the effects of working with the people whose loved ones have [...]

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Feb

1

Vicarious Trauma Webinar

February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The Family Justice Center Alliance has a webinar on vicarious trauma coming up February 11th from 9-11am Pacific. As with all FJCA webinars, it’s free, but preregistration is a good idea.

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Jan

20

In My Inbox: Threats in the ED & This Emotional Life

January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

This morning when I booted up my email I found two great things to share. The first is a fantastic blog entry over at Chief Complaint (the Medscape ED Physician’s blog). It briefly discusses an encounter with a patient who threatens to kill an ED nurse (among other unpleasant things), and asks the questions: “Is [...]

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Dec

15

Renaming the Hymen

December 15, 2009 | 3 Comments

Let’s just go ahead and put this in the where in the world did you come across this one? category. The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) has decided it would be a good idea to rename the hymen in order to, um, bust the myths that surround it…(sorry.)

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